Example sentences of "that [pron] had [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March the Prime Minister Winston Churchill , replying to a letter from the TUC Education Committee , gave an assurance that nothing had yet been settled and reserved some memorable prose for a concluding tribute to the value of liberal studies in adult education : |
| 2 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
| 3 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 4 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 5 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 6 | The living creature that I had briefly been might never have existed . |
| 7 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 8 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 9 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 10 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 11 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 12 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 13 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 14 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 15 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 16 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 17 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |
| 18 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 19 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 20 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 21 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 22 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 23 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 24 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 25 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 26 | Spoiled by the fact that I had always been treated with respect because I was a veterinary surgeon , a member of an honourable profession . |
| 27 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 28 | As I walked towards the hut , I saw that someone had certainly been using it . |
| 29 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 30 | Dr McCallum added that she had rarely been asked to help anyone end their life , though relatives sometimes asked , using the argument ‘ you would n't let a dog die in this way ’ . |